gawky
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Gawky and bespectacled but with the brio of a scrapper, Pearlman was dressed like a quintessential sports geek: black-and-yellow Pittsburgh Pirates hat and Pittsburgh Maulers shirt, the latter a long-gone professional football team.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2025
Gawky models running through some seedy noodle joint is the hipster technique du jour.
From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2018
Gawky, toothy, sickly and painfully thin, she was teased, in the sometimes harsh Kennedy way, as “Puny Eunie.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2018
Gawky, homely, his weighty trunk swaying upon long parabolic legs, he first barnstormed the rural counties as a burlesque "Little Eva" in a golden wig on a ladder to heaven.
From Time Magazine Archive
Luther Warden is all she has of kin, and if it makes him any happier to see her togged out in that gawky Dunkard gown——-" "Gawky?" said I. "
From The Soldier of the Valley by Lloyd, Nelson
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